mikegleasonjr wrote:I am building a NAS and I don't need video-related stuff. When I apt-update I always get tons of updates regarding mesa or libs or qt.

I can't understand, why you think, for example, that Qt for WebAsm is not server only tech? Which is working via Mesa too.

upd: it's not called a NAS distro. it's just a core;)

So instead of replying to the question you play with words.. Never said it was a NAS distro btw.

I know you're brighter than that and knew what I meant but here it is in case you missed it: usually "server" and "core" means headless in the distros world. Okay FriendlyElec it is different and I knew it. But there is no "bare" distro and that's why I asked the question... So what packages do you recommend I can uninstall to avoid a plethora of packages to update when I apt update?

mikegleasonjr wrote:So instead of replying to the question you play with words..

Correct question - is 50% of correct answer.

I highly recommend you to follow IgorP suggestion to use Armbian, but you also can try avafinger version of Ubuntu - it's even smaller, than Armbian (and contain less packages - around 200MB compressed image), but required a bit more of technical knowledge to make it work.